FOCAL - Forward Calorimeter

This page should contain information about the Focal project, especially about the interfacing from the Mimosa chips to the readout electronics.

Mimosa chips

File:PH1-UserMan-20080724.pdf preliminary data sheet

Readout electronics

Adapterboard /Fanoutboard

The schematics of the boards is here: File:Adapter board.

Control and Readout board

The idea is to use a Xilinx Virtex 6 development board as a first prototype. The board would run Petalinux, and some software to access the firmware registers. A software framework for the TPC detector is to be adapted for the use on the Xirtex 6 board and Petalinux.

Firmware

The VHDL counterpart is to be found here: http://web.ift.uib.no/kjekscgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/alice-fw/trunk/messagebuffer/

Software

The software driver for the message buffer system can be found here: http://web.ift.uib.no/kjekscgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/alice-dcs/trunk/rculinux/dcscMsgBufferInterface/

Petalinux documentation: [1]

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